Phillip Noyce Quotes

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• The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them…
• Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came…
• Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice…
• You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of…
• Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
• After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have…
• So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to…
• A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so…
• I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
• People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny,…
• The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism…
• Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on…
• I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.
• Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the…
• There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked…
• Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.

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